LRSD enrollment: official count

Little Rock School Board members have received the Oct. 1 enrollment figures, considered the “official” count. Total enrollment is down over last year by 847 students, or a little more than 3 percent. (This will represent a drop in state base funding of nearly $5 million.) The percentage of black students, long a marker of success or failure of the district in desegregation efforts, held steady at every grade level, 68.3 percent overall. But there was a drop of 413 white students, offset by an increase of 157 students of “other” racial identifications.